Jar-holder.



No. 742,238. PATENTED OCT. 27. 1903.

A. ROESOH.

JAR HOLDER.

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UNITED STATES iate1ited October 27,1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED ROESCH, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO JAMES B. ERWIN, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

JAR-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,238, dated October 27, 1903.

Application filed November 6, 1902. Serial No. 130,338. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED ROESOH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in J ar-I-lolders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of fruit jar or can holders shown in Letters Patent No. 693,353,issued to James B.

. Erwin February 11, 1902, in which devicea metallic band is attached at its respective ends of the short arms of two crossed levers which are pivotally connected together at the oint of intersection. As heretofore constructed the ends of the short arms of the levers come within the circle described by the clamping-band and for this reason are brought in direct contact with the fruit-jar held thereby and are in some instances liable to break a ar.

The object of my invention is to so connect the arms .of the operating-levers with the clamping-band that they cannot when clam-ping the jar be brought into contact therewith, whereby the liability of breaking the jar is avoided.

The construction of my invention is explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a front view, and Fig. 2 is a side view, of a preferred form of my invention. Fig. 3 is a detail showing a modified form of the clamping-band in which the fastening-hooks are made separate from the band and are secured thereto by rivets. Fig. 4 represents a front and Fig. 5 a side view of a modified form of clamping-band and the device for connecting the same to the short arms of the lovers.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

A represents the long arms of the clampinglevers, which serve as handles for the device and which are pivotally connected together by the rivet B.

C represents the short arms of the levers, which in the preferred form are respectively provided with laterally-projecting lugs D and E, to which the respective ends of the clamping-band F are attached.

Referring to the preferred form shown in Figs. 1, 2,and 3,0ne'end of the clamping-band F is provided with outwardly-projecting lugs G, having eyelets G for engagement with the lugs D, while the opposite end of the clamping-band is provided with one or more sets of two each of books or outward projections H for temporary engagement with the laterallyprojecting lugs E. The hooks or projections H arepreferably formed integrally with the clamping-band F, in which case they may be struck up with a die from a single piece of sheet metal as the band is being cut, when they are turned over at right angles to the band, as best shown in Fig. 1. The hooks or projections may, however, be formed separately from the band and secured thereto by rivets I, as shown in Fig. 3. h

To provide for adjusting the. clampingband to fruit-jars of different sizes, I have preferably provided one end thereof with a plurality of sets of two each of projections H, located at slight distances apart, corresponding with the different sizes of the jars with which the holders are adapted to be used.

J represents a sectional view of a fruit-jar with which my device is adapted to be used. It will be obvious that by bringing the long arms A of the clamping-levers together the band F will be contracted and drawn firmly around the walls of the jar, while the ends of the short arms C of the clamping-levers are prevented from coming into contact with aperture of one of said arms and is turned.

over and around the transverse bar M there of and back upon itself and may, if desired,

be thus secured by a rivet, while the opposite end of said band is provided at its longi- IOO . tudinal center with. one or more hooks or outward projections N, which are adapted to pass through the aperture K of the other arm and engage upon the transverse bar 0 thereof.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a jar-holder, the combination with a pair of pivotally-connected levers, of a clamping-band, permanently connected at one end, with one of the short arms of said levers, and provided at its opposite end with one or more outward radial projections adapted to be detachably connected with the other short arm of said levers.

2. In a jar-holder, the combination with a pair of pivotally-connected clamping-levers, of a clamping-band pivotally connected at one end with one of the short arms of the clam ping-levers, and provided at its opposite end with sets of two each of outward radial projections, adapted to he detachably connected with the other short arm of said levers.

3. In a jar-holder, the combination with a pair of pivotally-connected clamping-levers, of a clamping-band, provided atone end with outwardly-projecting lugs permanently connected with one of the short arms of the clamping-levers, and provided at its opposite end with a plurality of sets of two each of outward radial projections, adapted to be detachably connected with the other short arm of said levers.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED ROESCH.

Witnesses:

GEORGE E. HILL, MATTIE I. MERWIN. 

